5/3/25 TORAH Leviticus 13:55 - 14:20 25 verses GOSPEL Matthew 15:21-16:20 39 verses Tazria-Metzora

Weekly Public Reading 5/3/25 TORAH READING Leviticus 13:55 - 14:20 Tazria-Metzora | (25 verses)

Leviticus 13:55 And the priest shall examine it after the infection has been washed off, and if the infection has not changed its outward appearance and the infection has not spread, it is unclean; he must burn it in the fire; it is a fungus on its back or on its front.

Leviticus 13:56 But if the priest examines it and if the infection is faded after it has been washed off, then he shall tear it from the garment or from the leather or from the woven material or from the fabric.

Leviticus 13:57 And if it appears again on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, it is spreading; you must burn in the fire that which has the infection in it.

Leviticus 13:58 And the garment or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object that he might wash and the infection is removed from them then shall be washed a second time, and it shall be clean.”

Leviticus 13:59 This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease in the wool garment or the linen or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object to declare it clean or to declare it unclean.

Leviticus 14:1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 14:2 “This is the regulation of the person afflicted with a skin disease at the time of his cleansing. And he shall be brought to the priest,

Leviticus 14:3 and the priest shall go outside the camp, and the priest shall examine him, and if the skin disease’s infection is healed on the afflicted person,

Leviticus 14:4 then the priest shall command, and he shall take two living, clean birds and cedar wood and a crimson thread and hyssop for the one who presents himself for cleansing.

Leviticus 14:5 Then the priest shall command someone to slaughter one bird over fresh water in a clay vessel.

Leviticus 14:6 He must take the living bird and the cedar wood and the crimson thread and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird in the bird’s blood slaughtered over the fresh water.

Leviticus 14:7 And he shall spatter the blood seven times on the one who presents himself for cleansing from the infectious skin disease, and he shall declare him clean, and he shall send the living bird into the open field.

Leviticus 14:8 Then the one who presents himself for cleansing shall wash his garments, and he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash himself in the water; thus he shall be clean, and afterward he shall enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days.

Leviticus 14:9 And then on the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—he must shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows and all the rest of his hair—and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body in the water; thus he shall be clean.

Leviticus 14:10 “And on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb in its first year without defect and three-tenths of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering and one log of oil.

Leviticus 14:11 And the priest who cleanses him shall present the man who presents himself for cleansing and these things before Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of assembly.

Leviticus 14:12 Then the priest shall take the one male lamb, and he shall present it as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and he shall wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14:13 And he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering in the sanctuary’s space, because as the sin offering belongs to the priest, so also the guilt offering—it is a most holy thing.

Leviticus 14:14 And the priest shall take some of the guilt offering’s blood, and the priest shall put it on the right ear’s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe.

Leviticus 14:15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and he shall pour it on his left palm;

Leviticus 14:16 and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is on his left palm, and he shall spatter some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14:17 Then the priest shall put some of the remaining oil, which is on his palm, on the right ear’s lobe of the one to be cleansed and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe, on top of the guilt offering’s blood.

Leviticus 14:18 And the remaining oil that is on the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14:19 Thus the priest shall sacrifice the sin offering, and he shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing from his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering

Leviticus 14:20 Then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and so he shall be clean.

GOSPEL READING Matthew 15:21-16:20 (39 verses)

Matthew 15:21 And departing from there, Jesus went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

Matthew 15:22 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that district came and cried out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”

Matthew 15:23 But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and asked him, saying, “Send her away, because she is crying out after us!”

Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 15:25 But she came and knelt down before him, saying, “Lord, help me!”

Matthew 15:26 And he answered and said, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs!”

Matthew 15:27 So she said, “Yes, Lord, for even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you want.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Matthew 15:29 And departing from there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee, and he went up on the mountain and was sitting there.

Matthew 15:30 And large crowds came to him, having with them the mute, blind, lame, crippled, and many others, and they put them down at his feet, and he healed them.

Matthew 15:31 So then the crowd was astonished when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

Matthew 15:32 And Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry lest they give out on the way.”

Matthew 15:33 And the disciples said to him, “Where in this desolate place can we get so much bread that such a great crowd could be satisfied?”

Matthew 15:34 And Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” So they said, “Seven, and a few little fish.”

Matthew 15:35 And commanding the crowd to recline for a meal on the ground,

Matthew 15:36 he took the seven loaves and the fish and after he had given thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Matthew 15:37 And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.

Matthew 15:38 Now those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children.

Matthew 15:39 And after he sent away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.

Matthew 16:1 And when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test him, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 16:2 So he answered and said to them, “When evening comes you say, ‘It will be fair weather because the sky is red,’

Matthew 16:3 and early in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy weather, because the sky is red and darkening.’ You know how to evaluate correctly the appearance of the sky, but you are not able to evaluate the signs of the times.

Matthew 16:4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah!” And he left them and went away.

Matthew 16:5 And when the disciples arrived at the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

Matthew 16:6 And Jesus said to them, “Watch out for and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

Matthew 16:7 So they were discussing this among themselves, saying, “It is because we did not take bread.”

Matthew 16:8 But knowing this, Jesus said, “Why are you discussing among yourselves that you did not take bread, you of little faith?

Matthew 16:9 Do you not yet understand or do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Matthew 16:10 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?

Matthew 16:11 How do you not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

Matthew 16:12 Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:13 Now when Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he began asking his disciples, saying, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”

Matthew 16:14 And they said, Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

Matthew 16:15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!”

Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 16:18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it!

Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven.”

Matthew 16:20 Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was the Christ.